HHS’s Acting Assistant Secretary of Health, Karen DeSalvo, MD, MPH, MSc, and ODPHP’s Health Communication and eHealth Division Director, Linda Harris, PhD, recently teamed up with CVS Health’s Senior Vice President and Chief Digital Officer, Brian Tilzer, MBA, and Chief Scientific Officer and Chief Medical Officer, William Shrank, MD, MSHS for a Health Affairs blog post on a public-private partnership to increase awareness of the availability of convenient, consumer-centered, recommended preventive services using MyHealthfinder…
Thursday, January 21, 2016 12:00 pm ET | Register now
Unintentional and violence-related injuries and deaths can be caused by a number of events, such as motor vehicle crashes, homicide, suicide, domestic and school violence, and child abuse and neglect.
This Healthy People 2020 webinar on injury and violence prevention will focus on activities and interventions related to teen dating violence.…
By Colin Milner, CEO, International Council on Active Aging
Now that we are nearly two weeks into 2016, how are your New Year’s resolutions going? You know, the ones about getting healthier, losing weight, and taking better care of yourself.
Have these resolutions driven you to hit the gym? What about cutting sugar-sweetened beverages from your diet?…
We know that a lifetime of healthy eating helps to prevent chronic diseases like obesity, heart disease, high blood pressure, and Type 2 diabetes. The Dietary Guidelines provides a clear path for the general public, as well as policy makers and health professionals and others who reach the public, to help Americans make healthy choices, informed by a thoughtful, critical, and transparent review of the scientific evidence on nutrition.